[Discussion] CONF.- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, Toronto - Programme (fwd)

[Gonul Pultar]

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Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:39:56 -0400
From: Gillian Long <gillian.long@utoronto.ca>
To: CentralAsia-L@fas.harvard.edu
Subject: CONF.- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, Toronto - Programme

A distribution of: CentralAsia-L - Announcement List for Central Asian Studies


CONF.- Central and Inner Asia Seminar, Toronto - Programme

Central and Inner Asia Seminar
Asian Institute
University of Toronto

"The Cultural Legacy of Conflict in Central and Inner Asia"

Friday & Saturday May 3 & 4, 2002

Croft Chapter House, University College

FRIDAY

9.00 - 9.30  REGISTRATION
9.30 - 9.45  OPENING REMARKS

9.45 - 10.15  PIERRE PAHLAVI (McGill University): "The conquest of a common
    cultural legacy: Turkey and Turkic Asia"

10.15 - 10.45  ALMAZ TOLYMBEK (Kent State University): "New Silk Road? The
    western role in rebuilding regional co-operation in the south Caucasus and
    Central Asia and their links with the modern world"

10.45 - 11.00  Break

11.00 - 11.30  OTTO FARKAS (World Vision Canada): "Who controls Herat?: on
    the military, political and humanitarian ambitions in western Afghanistan"

11.30 - 12.00  GEORGE ZHAO (East Asian Studies, University of Toronto):
    "Control through conciliation: the political significance of the royal
    marriages between the Mongol Yuan court and the Koryo court in the 13th 
and
    14th centuries"

12.00 - 12.30  SAULESH ESENOVA (McGill University): "The space between two
    journeys: Soviet modernization, rural to urban migration and Kazakh social
    organization"

12.30 - 1.30  Lunch

1.30 - 2.00  HIROMI KINOSHITA (University of Oxford, England): "Conquest and
    hybridity: patterns of Liao tomb burial"

2.00 - 3.00  MANU P. SOBTI (College of Architecture, Atlanta GA): "Synthesis
    or destruction: examining the myth of the Arab invasions on Central Asia"

3.00 - 3.15  Break

3.15 - 3.45  TUYAKBAYEV SAPARBEK (CREES, University of Toronto): "Turkish
    foreign policy towards the Turkic Central Asian states: myth of 
Pan-Turkism"

3.45 - 4.15  JAZIRA ASANOVA (Toronto): "Literacy and women's issues in
    Soviet and Post-Soviet Kazakhstan"

4.15 - 4.45  EMMA BEGIJANIAN (Abovyan, Armenia): "The competition in Central
    and Inner Asia for new cultural influence"

4.45 - 5.15  BARBARA HIND (Multi-media presentation): "The cultural legacy
    of conquest: Buddhist revival in Mongolia"

SATURDAY

9.15 - 9.45  NEIL MORAN (Toronto): "Letters to Kipling: the humiliating
    defeat of the Afghan Boundary Commission, 1885"

9.45 - 10.45  NANCY STEINHARDT (University of Pennsylvania): "Red lintels,
    green rooftops: the role of architecture in Xinjiang painting"

10.45 - 11.00  Break

11.00 - 11.30  HESSAMEDDIN VAEZ (University of Leeds, England): "The legacy
    of Persian culture in Central Asia: nationalism and the Islamic factor"

11.30 - 12.00  RAJESHWARI GHOSE (University of Hong Kong): "Representation
    of the Pari- nirvana scene in the rock-cut caves of Kizil: its 
significance
    in relation to the Mulasarvastivadin doctrine of Buddhism"

12.00 - 1.00  Lunch

1.00 - 1.30  JULIBOY ELTAZAROV (Samarkand University, Uzbekistan):
    "Post-Soviet Central Asian countries after the war in Afghanistan"

1.30 - 2.00  DILOROM MUHSINOVA (Samarkand, Uzbekistan): "Some problems of
    competition among world geopolitical powers in post-Soviet Central Asia"

2.00 - 2.30  ROHILA SUVONOVA (Samarkand University, Uzbekistan): "Problems
    of language in the post-Soviet states of Central Asia"


There is also an exhibition of Barbara's photography in Robarts Library, on
the first floor.


Registration Fee: $30
($10 for Students and Seniors)
includes light lunch and mid-session refreshments on both days

For updates on programme information please check our website:
www.utoronto.ca/deeds/
(click on Research and then on CIAS)

To register, contact GILLIAN LONG
Phone & Fax 416 978 4882
gillian.long@utoronto.ca

The activities of the Central and Inner Asian Seminar are generously
supported by the Asian Institute, the Departments of East Asian Studies and
History, the Centres for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), and for
the Study of Religion, the Munk Centre for International Studies and the
School of Graduate Studies, all of the University of Toronto.